At Shanghai Jiao Tong University, in a large lecture hall full of people, there was constant discussion.
A banner hangs on the blackboard of the podium.
Written above: [Undergraduate Graduation Defense of Li Mu, School of Mathematics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University]
That's right, what is about to be held in this lecture theater is Li Mu's graduation defense for his mathematics degree.
The place was full of people. Most of them had heard that Li Mu was going to give a defense, and they all came over to watch.
There are lecturers, professors, and students.
No matter who it is, they all want to see how different Li Mu's graduation defense will be.
As a result, this large lecture theater could originally seat more than a hundred people, but now, even the aisles are filled with people.
At this time, Li Mu was standing at the front.
He put down the cell phone he had just hung up on and turned it off again.
Next to him, Professor Lin Yao asked curiously: "What's the call from abroad? I hear you even speak English."
Li Mu nodded and replied: "Yes, the caller from the UK seems to be Joss Winston. He said he was the editor-in-chief of "Nature" and invited me to contribute."
Lin Yao was stunned immediately: "What? The... editor-in-chief of "Nature"? Invited you to contribute?"
"Yeah." Li Mu nodded: "It sounds true."
"Are you sure that guy said his name was Joss Winston?"
In the first row of seats, after hearing Li Mu's words, Dean Pang Ming of the School of Mathematics couldn't help but ask.
"Probably, Joes Winston."
Pang Ming immediately said helplessly: "The editor-in-chief of "Nature" is indeed named Joss Winston. You actually hung up on him like this?"
But he quickly thought about it and shook his head: "Well, it doesn't really matter."
With Li Mu's ability, it seemed that it really didn't matter whether he hung up or not.
What's more, if the other party can call, it definitely means that he has a need for Li Mu.
The only problem is...
Isn't Li Mu's reason for hanging up the phone too hard-core?
One of the most famous journals in the world called him to invite him to contribute, but he hung up the phone because he had to defend his undergraduate degree temporarily.
Probably only Li Mu could do this kind of thing.
He is indeed a guy who has caused a storm in the three worlds of chemistry, physics, and mathematics recently...
There were also many people around who heard about this, and looked at Li Mu more and more like they were looking at gods.
Especially those young professors, lecturers and students.
The editor-in-chief of "nature" personally invites submissions...
How many people of Li Mu's age in the world can receive such treatment?
Not to mention that many of them are in their forties or fifties.
At this time, the old man sitting in the middle of the first row immediately laughed: "Doesn't this mean that our classmate Xiao Li is very good?"
"I'm already looking forward to your reply later."
He looked at Li Mu with admiration.
Li Mu responded with a smile: "I will definitely satisfy Academician Wang."
This Academician Wang is the former dean of the School of Mathematics, current director of the Academic Committee of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and academician of the Academy of Sciences, Wang Shuo.
He has reached retirement age and rarely comes to school due to health reasons, but today he came to school specifically to participate in Li Mu's graduation defense, and he was the chairman of the defense committee.
Hearing Li Mu's answer, Wang Shuo immediately smiled: "Okay! I'm looking forward to it."
Li Mu nodded, and then glanced at the defense committee again.
This lineup...
Visibly powerful.
In addition to academician Wang Shuo, there is another academician of the Academy of Sciences, academician Li Cheng, who is also a professor at their school of mathematics and usually teaches at Zhejiang University.
Then there are two academicians invited from outside, because according to the graduation defense requirements of their school of mathematics, they usually require two experts from other schools.
One of them is Academician Yuan Xiang, the chairman of their Chinese Mathematical Society, and Academician Chen Tao of the International Mathematics Research Center of Beijing University.
Four people, four academicians.
Pang Ming, the dean of their school of mathematics, was almost not qualified to join the defense committee.
As for Lin Yao, let alone it. With his qualifications, it goes without saying that he wants to join the defense committee. Moreover, as Li Mu's mentor, he himself needs to avoid it.
Finally, the time came and the defense began.
Li Mu opened the ppt, and the title of his graduation thesis appeared on the home page.
"Algebraic topological diagrams and closed surfaces with almost staggered link complements"
On the first page, he began his narration.
"This paper mainly studies the relationship between the topological graph and the surface genus when there is at most one saddle point in each bulb of the surface topological graph, and..."
As he spoke the terms one by one and began to explain mathematics on the blackboard, the five defense committee members all entered into thinking and nodded from time to time.
They had all read Li Mu's paper before.
In this paper, Li Mu once again showed his strong mathematical analysis ability.
He used algebraic topology, an extremely difficult tool in mathematics, very skillfully and clearly analyzed the issues discussed in this paper.
All in all, it is definitely not something that an undergraduate or even a doctoral student can do.
These academicians did not look at this paper the way they read the defense papers, but looked at it the way they usually look at mathematics papers in top and second-tier journals.
Just kidding, the level of this paper is not much different from the level of papers they usually write.
Including this defense, they listened with the attitude of attending a mathematics academic conference.
In this way, time gradually passed, and Li Mu's voice was the only voice left in the entire lecture hall.
As for the students who came to join in the fun, they were basically in a state of confusion.
who I am?
where am I?
Why should I get involved in this kind of thing? ?
They all knew what Li Mu said and every word on the PPT, but why couldn't they understand the combination?
All right……
They didn't think they could understand it before they came.
Isn't the purpose of watching the boss's reply just to see how awesome the boss is?
As for other lecturers and many associate professors and professors, their brows were furrowed.
Their mentality is not as good as those students.
What the hell is this called an undergraduate defense?
I don’t understand anything at all!
How come Li Mu has studied algebraic topology so thoroughly!
…
Finally, about half an hour later, Li Mu finished his thesis.
Well, it doesn’t feel as good as…
The hail conjecture was originally proved at the Joint Mathematics Conference.
"After I have finished my presentation, I would like to ask all the responding teachers to criticize and correct me."
Turning to look at the thesis committee, Li Mu said with a smile.
Then several academicians on the defense committee looked at each other and couldn't help but smile helplessly.
What else is there to correct?
(End of chapter)
